Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday celebrated the completion of a U.S.-based sterile fly dispersal facility in Edinburg, Texas. The facility expands USDA’s ...

The three cases are from the 23 initially reported in December in the state of Tamaulipas, which borders the state of Texas.

Sterile flies tinted with a fluorescent dye are now being released in Texas as the harmful parasite inches close to the U.S.-Mexico border.

Infected flies are attracted to open wounds, where they burrow and lay eggs.

In the Texas border city of Edinburg, scientists are getting ready to release millions of invasive, flesh-eating flies into the wild. The post Why Texas scientists are breeding flesh-eating maggots ...

Gov. Greg Abbott issued a statewide disaster declaration in a preemptive response to the potential spread of the New World ...

Before eradication, screwworm caused hundreds of millions of dollars in financial losses each year in the United States. Ranchers spent enormous time and money on treatment and prevention. The ...

Stephen Diebel, Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association first vice president, alongside U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins and Governor Greg Abbott, today attended the grand opening ...

In Texas alone, projections estimate that an NWS outbreak could result in more than $1.8 billion in livestock losses.

New facility produces and disperses sterile flies along Mexico border to protect U.S. cattle industry from New World screwworm.

The effectiveness of this approach hinges on a unique characteristic of the screwworm fly: females mate only once during ...

South Texas is getting more water from Mexico and a new facility has opened to prevent the New World screwworm from crossing ...